Team Leader - Lung Cancer Screening Service

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust; Grimsby; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in Canada is looking for a Team Leader for the Lung Cancer Screening Service. The successful candidate will provide senior support to Medical Secretaries and manage clerical processes in a patient-focused environment. Key responsibilities include performance management, training, and staff recruitment, ensuring high-quality service delivery. Candidates should have strong IT skills, supervisory experience, and relevant qualifications such as NVQ Level 3 in Business Administration. An exciting opportunity to contribute to improving patient care awaits.

Qualifications

• RSA III typing or equivalent administration experience.
• Experience of using a full range of IT and patient data systems.
• Supervisory experience of administrative staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to the Service Manager and manage the Medical Secretaries.
• Ensure accurate management of annual leave and sickness.
• Implement Trust policies for resolving poor performance.

Skills

IT systems proficiency

Supervisory experience

Strong communication skills

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Business Administration

GCSE in English and Maths grades A-C

A-level education

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Patient data systems

Job description

Go back Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust

Team Leader - Lung Cancer Screening Service

The closing date is 21 December 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team.

The Lung Cancer Screening Team Leader will provide senior support and expert knowledge to the team of Medical Secretaries and Booking Clerks within the Lung Cancer team. The team leader will oversee all administrative and clerical processes to enable a high quality, effective and patient focused service is delivered. The post holder will ensure that standard operating procedures are followed, ensuring achievement of all performance targets. The Team Leader will be responsible for providing regular updates on performance and the escalation of issues which hinder the delivery of a smooth patient pathway to the Service Manager.

Main duties of the job

• Provide support and assistance to the Service Manager, ensuring effective day to day management of the Medical Secretaries and other administrative staff within the team.
• Ensure annual leave, flexitime and sickness is managed and recorded accurately for staff directly managed by them and that adequate cross cover arrangements are in place.
• Implement Trust policies for managing individual performance and for resolving poor performance.
• Be responsible for continuing personal and professional development of staff and undertake yearly appraisals.
• Assist in the recruitment of staff with the appropriate skills to support the needs of the specialty administration team.
• Ordering of stock and supplies as necessary and in line with Trust Scheme of Delegation.
• Ensure training needs, including that of electronic systems, of current and new staff are met to be able to provide a patient focused service, as well as mandatory training.

About us

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

Job responsibilities

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/

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We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers.

Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

• RSA III typing or equivalent administration experience
• NVQ Level 3 in Business Administration/Customer Care or acquired equivalent experience
• GCSE or equivalent in English and Maths, grades A-C
• Educated to A-level

Occupational Experience

• Experience of using full range of IT/Patient data systems/Microsoft office
• Supervisory experience of administrative staff

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust